On another thread i posted about Labour taking the piss with a wet behind the ears, baby boy candidate for west devon in 2010. Now I know that hopefuls get blooded in constituencies they can't win...but surely they should at least do us the courtesy of putting up credible candidates or is this the future we are stuck with now, just more and more lobby-fodder.

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Adopting the British system of driving on the left; this was to be gradually phased in over five years with large trucks and tractors first, then buses, eventually including small cars and bicycles last.[SUP][12][/SUP]

Declaring war on Belgium because a Belgian cartoon character, Tintin, killed a rhinoceros in one of the cartoons[SUP][25][/SUP]

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Painting Canada's coastal sea limits in watercolour so that Canadian fish would know where they were at all times[SUP][20][/SUP]

I would love to see a reality TV show made where candidates at an election have to audition before their local party and show how hard they would work on behalf of their local community as well as answering questions about local issues. They would get wittled down until the party's official candidate is chosen.

Each of the major parties would select in this way. Each party supplies the 3 initial judges to select their candidates from the auditions, the panel plus public make the final cut.

Independents 'audition' before a panel of 2 local councillors and a lay person and are chosen in the same way as others except that they make the final selection numbers up to 10. So, if there are representatives from the Tories, Labour, Lib Dem, UKIP and Green Parties then they would make up the final five to make the total ten.

The finalists would be judged by an academic, a local politician and a lay person. They would have to formulate policies on National and local issues and work with members of the public to solve issues. Each candidate would be mentored by a famous politician from his/her party or, in the case of independents famous or former independent MPs.

It would be interesting to see what made a candidate popular with the public and is people voted because they shared the same ethnicity or gender or if they genuinely went for the one that would work the hardest and had the most sensible policies.

Obviously they wouldn't be real elections and the whole country would be voting so there would have to be some sort of accommodation for Nationalist parties but I think it would make fascinating TV and may well turn up a few future politicians of worth. It would certainly give an insight into what people want from their MP and how they choose.

On another thread i posted about Labour taking the piss with a wet behind the ears, baby boy candidate for west devon in 2010. Now I know that hopefuls get blooded in constituencies they can't win...but surely they should at least do us the courtesy of putting up credible candidates or is this the future we are stuck with now, just more and more lobby-fodder.

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Demonstrates quite clearly the regard politicians have for the electorate. The good of the country is the last priority on their manifestos.